Money for Living Resources
Financial Literacy Overview
Emergency Fund
Use a Budget
Manage Your Money
Some useful books and online or downloadable educational resources are listed below. Many financial institutions, libraries, businesses and organizations also have books on financial literacy topics.
Chilliwack sources include the Fraser Valley Regional Library, local bookstores, banks and credit unions, and Chilliwack Learning Society.
Manage Your Money Workbook | Enactus – St. Lawrence College, Ontario |
Managing Money | Authors: Nan Bostick and Susan Freese |
Recipes for an Empty Wallet | Enactus – St. Lawrence College, Ontario |
Money Matters | ABC Life Literacy Canada |
A Place to Start: Spending Plans | ABC Life Literacy Canada |
RESPs and Other Ways to Save | ABC Life Literacy Canada |
HSBC Family Literacy First: Number and Cents | ABC Life Literacy Canada |
Each One Teach One Financial Literacy Series | Vancity |
Financial Literacy | Canadian Bankers Association |
Money and Youth | Canadian Foundation for Economic Education |
Credit Counseling Tips | Credit Counseling Society of BC |
Consumer News, Advocacy Information and Reports | Financial Consumer Agency of Canada |
Financial Empowerment | Prosper Canada |
Financial Relief Navigator (during the COVID-19 pandemic) | Prosper Canada |
Financial Literacy for Everyone | Practical Money Skills Canada |
English for Financial Literacy | SettlementatWork WIKI |
Budget Planner | Financial Consumer Agency of Canada |
Efry Future Bright RESP | Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver (Efry) |
Literacy Links & Resources
ABC Life Literacy Canada – Money Matters |
Decoda Literacy Solutions
is the only province-wide literacy organization in British Columbia. Providing resources, training and funds, Decoda supports community-based literacy programs and initiatives in over 400 communities across B.C. Decoda supports children and families, youth, adults, Aboriginal and immigrant communities in an effort to build strong individuals, strong families and strong communities. |
HRSDC – Literacy and Essential Skills |
National Adult Literacy Database |
Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver |